Buried impact basin distribution on Mars: Contributions from crustal thickness data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Edgar, Lauren A ^a,b   Frey, Herbert V ^c  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; GRAVITATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

CIRCULAR THIN AREAS (CTAS); IMPACT BASIN DISTRIBUTION; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR (MGS); MARS ORBITER LASER ALTIMETER (MOLA); QUASI-CIRCULAR DEPRESSIONS (QCDS);

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ALTIMETER; CRATER; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DATA SET; IMPACT; MARS; SPACECRAFT; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 40849137912     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031466     Document Type: Article

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